Worlding America explores the circulation of short narratives in the early Americas through a combination of neglected primary materials and scholarly commentary.
Abraham Karpinowitz (1913-2004) was born in Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania), the city that serves as both the backdrop and the central character for his stories.
There is no doubt that Desmond Hogan is one of most remarkable literary talents to have come out of Ireland in the past half-century, and perhaps the best introduction to his work is through his magnificent short stories, widely anthologized and praised throughout the world.
In Exiled from Almost Everywhere, Juan Goytisolo's perverse mutant protagonist-the Parisian "e;Monster of Le Sentier"e;-is blown up by an extremist bomber and finds himself in the cyberspace of the Thereafter with an infinite collection of computer monitors.
Teenagers philosophize on the nature of ontology, while fearing there's a ghost in the old mill they're stuck in; anxieties over finitude and terrorism are scrutinized; a man encounters an old friend in the unlikeliest of places; nineteenth-century inventor Sigismund Mohr is vividly brought back from obscurity; and two journalists travel to Kenya for a conference, where one of them has a paranoid breakdown.
A masterful, multifaceted story collection from one of American literature’s most influential writers and teachers As a creative writing teacher whose students included Raymond Carver, Joy Williams, and Andre Dubus, and as longtime editor of The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, R.
»Wie Annie Ernaux, aber lustig« Irène Bluche, rbb KulturDas kleinste gemeinsame Vielfache« ist ein Meisterwerk der Erzählkunst und eine berückend schöne Geschichte über ein unangepasstes Mädchen, das unbeirrt seinen Weg geht.
Considered an eccentric in the traditional Korean literary world, Jung Young-moon's short stories have nonetheless won numerous readers both in Korea and abroad, most often drawing comparisons to Kafka.
Eine Odyssee durch Tel Aviv zur Zeit des zweiten Golfkriegs: Adam Lotem, General der israelischen Armee, ist auf der Suche nach den Bildern von Luca Signorelli und nach der geheimnisvollen Shulamit, der er in der Bibliothek der Universität begegnet und die sich ihm immer wieder entzieht.
Troll Bridge, a tale from the mind of Sunday Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman, has been beautifully adapted for the first time by Eisner Award-winning writer/artist Colleen Doran.
Kate Chopins classic book of 23 masterful short stories shows rural life in Louisiana after the American Civil War and how former slaves, people of color, women, poor whites, and wealthy whites chafed against social restrictions.
A fantastic three-book bundle of the hilarious Carrington's Department Store series: CUPCAKES AT CARRINGTON'S, ME AND MR CARRINGTON (a short story) and CHRISTMAS AT CARRINGTON'S.
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Prize, the Edmund White Award, and the California Book Award, Lori Ostlund's ';heartbreaking and wonderful' (Pulitzer Prizewinning author Richard Russo) debut collection of stories about men and women confronting the unmapped and unexpected.
EIN ROMAN WIE EIN SCHLAG INS GESICHTUnd der Beweis dafür, dass du die Hoffnung niemals aufgeben darfstRebecca und ihre Zwillingsschwester könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein: Die eine schön wie im Märchen, die andere hässlich wie die Nacht.
What begins as an ordinary event quickly shifts into the bizarre after the narrator, a wealthy bachelor, meets their friend, Lanvivain, at an old mansion.
Friendly Fire, the first collection of short stories from Alaa Al Aswany, acclaimed author of Chicago and The Yacoubian Building, deftly explores the lives of contemporary Egyptians.
A startling new work from a Nobel prize-winning author: ten short stories, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world.
A compilation of Sarah Orne Jewett's essential works including Deephaven, a novel about two young women who spend a summer visiting a small coastal town.
Gabon's first female novelist, Angele Rawiri probed deeper into the issues that writers a generation before her-Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall-had begun to address.
